Autographic register



J. Q. SHERMAN.

AUTOGRA'PHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. Io. I9I9.

Patented May 16,A 1922.

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. VBe it known that I, JOHN STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHNQ. SHERMAN, F DAYTON, OHIO.

.- AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER..

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Riny 16, 1922.

" Application med April 1o, 1919. serial No. c89,049.

- gomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain `new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the folk lowing is a full, clear, and exact description,

` transactions on Asuch machine, this recordt machine casmg.

reference being had to the drawing accompanying this specifiation.

My invention relates to autographic registers wherein a number of strips of `paper are brought over a writing plate, with sheets of carbon paper inserted between them so as to make a plurality of copies of the matter written on the top sheet.

In registers of this type there have Ibeen developed in the past, what are known as recording autographic registers, wherein one of the plurality of strips is not fed out of the machine, but instead 'is Wound up or otherwise deposited within the casing of the machine, thereby fqrminga complete record of' available only to persons who can open the My present machlne is a recording type of autographic register, and hasas its object the provision ofl certain improvements, chiefly of value in recording registers, but which have application to all autographic registers. L

In the autographic registers of the past the paper has generally been installed in the machines in roll form, and unwound from the rolls during the operation of the machine. The record strips have also been stored on rolls, bywinding the strip containing the record over a core at the delivery end of the machine. f p

The result in general from'using papers that have been rolled up just previous to delivery from] the machine is that the sections torn therefrom will tend to .curl and thus be hard to handle.

, true where the paper has been stored for some months,' in which case it is a great and when the owner attempts to unroll the record strip, in such a machine he is involved inl a great deal of dliliculty in handling it. I-Ie can turn only with great difficulty to any desired transactiomand the paper will be This is particularly long and unwieldy so as to make it hard to manage. A

Moreover, there is great ditiiculty in maintaining theproper'feed and registration in registers of the pin wheelfeed type, of a record strip which is wound in a roll, since all strips should be free from friction while.

being fed by the pins in 'order to maintain registry. In the record machines of the past there have been variousl devices for allowing for tle difference in, diameter between the storage roll of the record strip due to accumulationpf paper on it, but this is of no assistance when it comes tothe elimination of all friction from the record strip in order to maintain or establish registration between the record strip and the other strips in the machine.

Accordingly; in my invention herein I provide the 'paper for use in the form of bundles made up of opposite flat folds; whereby the slips delivered will be flat, and whereby the record bundle-will naturally fall in place in its previous folded condition in a recep- V`tacle located in the casing just Dbeyond the feeding mechanism.

AIn the drawings,

Figure l' is a side elevation of the device with casing broken away.

Figure 2 is a perspective View thereof with the rear door open and the lid removed.

Figure 3 is a perspective of a bundle of paper.

Figure '4 is a sectional detail showing a modified paper support.

The machine has a casing 1 havinga tablet 2 and a lid 3. -A pin wheel feed 4 is pro` vided and beyond this feed the casing is closed at the top by a lid 5 which overlaps at 6, the lid 3. There is, thus, a compartment left at the delivery end of the casing be ond the feed device, said compartment being closed by a hinge and lockable door 7; Completing this compartment there Eis a vertical wall 8 extending up from the base of the casing terminated by a portion 9l that extends around the pin wheel device, so as to strip o the record sheet from the pins. cured to the door is a curved deflector arm .10 whose operation will be hereinafter demarginal holes 1'3 and also consecutively numbered, The bundles, four in number, as shown, will be mounted in casings in any desired manner, such as permitting them to rest against sloping backs 14, or laying them on shelves 14a `(Figure 4), both shelves and backs being shown to indicate a supporting means generally.

Where four (or more) f lms are used, it Willbe preferable to have an idler 15 on the back 14 of an intermediate bundle to -serve as va guide for the uppermost and outer strip A.

The strips B, C and D, and the strip A also, will be brought up over idler rollers 16 located in the casings at the level of the tablet plate.

From these rollers the strips will pass over4 the tablet plate and the pin wheel feed will engage in the perforations 13, thereby feeding the strips and retaining them in registry. It

will be understood that whatever friction is unavoidable on these strips should be equal for 'each strip.

After passing the feed device, the strips A, B and C will be led out of the machine and the strip D will be led under the lid 5. As noted, this strip D will be stripped off by the plate 9 and be prevented from buckling by the deiector 10.

Due to the tendency of the strip D to fold,

it will form in a neat pile in the chamber,

therefore, as shown at 17. When the owner ldesires to get at the record, he will open the and backs.

It can be observed also that no friction orv pull. is applied to the record strip beyond the feed, as would be the case if the strip were rolled up on a core operated by gears from the feed device. Not only this, but the strips A, B andC, which will be torn off in sections when they are fed from the machine, will show no tendency to curl. It will be seen also that the record sections can be of identical size to the removed sections since no` problem is involved of winding them on a roll Whoseftdiameter varies with the amount of paper thereon.

While no alternative structures are mentioned it should be Inoted that these were not omitted with the intention `of excluding the application of the doctrine of equivalent-s in the construction of the claims that follow.

Having thus described my invention, what I-claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: l

1. In an autographic register, a means `for taking a record of the entries made -on the duplicate strips thereof, upon a strip of paper folded in reverse folds of sections corresponding to the sections of the duplicate strips comprising a feeding device and a receptacle in the casing provided with a constricted mouth to receive the said strip, and of a size to permit it -to fall naturally into a bundle, of the original form.

2. In an autographic register, a means for taking a record of the entries made on the duplicate strips thereof, Aupon a strip of paper folded in reverse folds of sections cor- .responding to the sections of the duplicate strips comprising a feeding device and a receptacle in 'the casing to receive the said strip, to perinit it to fall naturally into a bundle, of the original form, saidregister having a stripper member lying'adjacent the feed device to lift said strip from the feed, said stripper device extendin downward to form a substantially closed camber for the said strip in therear of the machine, and a curved member extending up into proximity tofthe upper end of the stripper for the purpose described.

3. In an autographic register, the combination with a casing, of means therein for feeding in registry a plurality of strips of paper, having like printing thereon, and like marginal holes therein, said means comprising in part a rotating body having lpins thereon to engage said holes, one of said strips being employed as a record strip, said record strip, at least, being folded prior to being fed, in a bundle of reversely folded sections, and a receptacle in the said casing, for receiving saidrecord strip after it passes said feedin device, and means for guidin the said strip into the receptacle so as to fa l naturally therein, for the pur ose described.

JOHN Q. HERMAN. 

